United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
964 F.2d 124 · 1992
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1993), United States v. Canoy (1994)
97 federal appellate · 10 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from New York Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Williams v. United States · Lane v. Peterson · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. American Train Dispatchers Ass'n · United States v. Headley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Family ties and responsibilities and community ties are not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rationale for [the] departure ... is not that [the defendant’s] family circumstances decrease her culpability, but that we are reluctant to wreak extraordinary destruction on dependents who rely solely on the defendant for their upbringing____ The departure was not on behalf of the defendant herself, but on behalf of her family.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Disruption of the defendant's life, and the concomitant difficulties for those who depend on the defendant, are inherent in the punishment of incarceration.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.